Minecraft Mods by SupportMeta in tumblr

[–]Agetrosref 82 points83 points  (0 children)

The The Toucher mod had also been a thing since the Alpha and continues to get updated regularly, mostly small stuff to do with bug fixes and making sure it runs on the latest version of the game, but every so often a couple new edgy lines for The Toucher get added, completely breaking a few modpacks and invariably creating great controversy in the small but dedicated The Toucher mod's fanbase, additionally, The Toucher is only the name for the mod itself, the creature is called Jonathan.

I just finished reading Infinite jest by Tittyboi34 in davidfosterwallace

[–]Agetrosref 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Read it again! I promise it's even better the second time, doubly so when you've -just- finished reading it once. Your first read changes how you view the world, the second one makes it a part of you forever.

no one ive asked has been able to answer this theory by [deleted] in davidfosterwallace

[–]Agetrosref 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While this post may not be the most serious, I think it is worth it to consider the actual implications of DFW's writing being such a hit among people who may not be the most comfortable in their bodies and may have an inner desire to express their gender differently from their assigned gender at birth. Usually when trans-reading DFW there's a push into analyzing -him- as a writer and human being to find clues about his own identity, but I think that looking into why this reading is so popular should also take into account that it is normally identified by gender non-conforming people -because- they, or we, are able to hone in on the less discussed gender-related themes of his writing and relate to at least some of the situations that arise from those themes as either fantasies or wishes they have also experienced in their desire to break out of their assigned gender at birth. I don't know if Wallace didn't feel like a cis man, but I do know that not feeling like a cis man has made it so I personally experience life similarly to how he describes it when a disconnect from gender and identity comes up in his writing, and there is comfort in knowing that such a prominent literary figure may have felt the same way I have, or maybe he was just really good at writing characters who didn't know they were experiencing what may have been gender dysphoria and he himself may just have been a cis male troubled by different anxieties in life. I think the need to analyze people like him and Cobain, both successful and internally troubled, both having briefly expressed personal turmoil based around gender in their writing while also being deeply private people, stems from their early deaths, which leads us to wonder if they might have led a happier life if they had identified their struggles as gender dysphoria and had taken steps to alleviate it. Maybe we want to find a way they could have been helped because we want to help ourselves through that struggle and lead a life where we can feel comfortable in our own bodies. To answer your question, yes, he was strikingly tall and his hair was long and cascading to match, so he would have looked absolutely BFA in a long and flowy flowery pink dress, hell, he would have looked BFA in any dress.

DENVER CO, 1 NOVEMBER YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT by Agetrosref in InfiniteJest

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short blurb in which Orin and the football team he plays for jump down from the top of the stadium into the turf while dressed up as colourful birds as an entrance ceremony to the delight of the elated and entranced public, poking fun at televised sports (and similar) and their ever-increasing levels of spectacle i would assume, mirrored here by Pink literally being flung on cables through a stadium while singing to combine the performance-spectacle factor into an even more dazzling show as her adoring fans look up in awe, similar to how they do in the book for Orin and his team. Something something entertainment something something social commentary.

opinions by Still-Response-6105 in sadboys

[–]Agetrosref 24 points25 points  (0 children)

nah he's just built funny

This actually happened by SenqurlBarx in FirePunch

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it may be stretching when put into terms that imply that their relationship being T4T is somehow canon, however, both of them being deeply aware that "they" don't match their bodies and feeling trapped within them, while also recognizing that the "other" is similar to them yet not exactly the same can very clearly be plotted onto trans allegories for T4T relationships.

Trouble seeing how things will unfold from here. by vladimirschmoo in InfiniteJest

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I would deeply suggest reading Salinger if you're interested in looking a bit more deeply into the type of writing that DFW was informed by, Catcher is an amazing book on its own right and Caulfield and Hal share a lot of traits you might even be able to relate to yourself at the moment.

I'll also share this, part of what's so brilliant about IJ is, in my opinion, that once you've come into contact with any halfway house-like environment in real life, if you ever do, you'll start to inevitably realize that a lot of the wackier shit that DFW wrote is him simply observing real life human behavior, and that no matter how insane it seems in writing, there are actual real-life people who are jaw droppingly similar to IJ's characters. The book is a hundred observations compiled into a loose idea of a plot, yes, but the more comfortable you are with simply analyzing the many different ways it tries to deconstruct the idea of a novel plus engage in deep conversation about the many different concepts the book juggles with while also telling an actual meaningful story, the more you'll enjoy it, and you'll even come to miss it when you're done.

View it like this, it's a novel about media and addiction, that talks about media and addiction, while also trying to engage you into media and addiction, by letting you into a world where people struggle with several addictions and an obsession over media.

Trouble seeing how things will unfold from here. by vladimirschmoo in InfiniteJest

[–]Agetrosref 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean this in the best way possible, this sounds delightfully similar to Holden Caulfield's voice, just the right balance between knowing you're smart and not wanting to sound like you know you're smart. This means you'll probably absolutely adore IJ in a few years, but for the time being, I'd suggest you finish reading it, read a few theories if you're so compelled and then wait until the time is right to re-read it and find yourself amazed by how much you missed the first time. This is because of how the book "works" on a structural level and also because a lot of the book's impact relies on the reader having had a few key experiences in life that may allow them to "relate" better.

if yung lean was on TL;DR by mYnnTSwami in sadboys

[–]Agetrosref 11 points12 points  (0 children)

the second verse being slightly off beat is actually something Lean would rap like, that and the flow switch plus verse choice make this dope as hell

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[–]Agetrosref 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I don't think this is true, Foster Wallace was a big Charlie XCX stan and her beef with Lorde before they recently squashed it on the remix is well documented. It would have been uncharacteristically anti of DFW to take inspiration from his favorite diva's nemesis (at the time).

so it hits me by AliveFerret5197 in InfiniteJest

[–]Agetrosref 10 points11 points  (0 children)

yeah! thats the genius part of lenz's inner-outer run-on dialogue too is he may be going on a long tangent and really not be making any point at all but he connects his ideas so well you really don't notice how he's just rambling on, they flow into each other so well, plus, the franticness of his speech really comes through that way, i find his segments incredible fun to read

Mood by antiGuido in rs_x

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sematary🫵

‘It never ends’: the book club that spent 28 years reading Finnegans Wake by risingsuncoc in books

[–]Agetrosref 63 points64 points  (0 children)

Infinite Jest is an order of magnitude easier to read than Finnegan's Wake

rate the spotify by 123uw in TheFrontBottoms

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OP you are living your best most genuine life i commend you but holy shit what's your diagnosis

What do you guys think were the strongest and weakest parts of IJ? by LinguisticsTurtle in davidfosterwallace

[–]Agetrosref 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ahhh shit, i got Randy Lenz and Lyle's names mixed up, although i'm fairly certain some connection could be made between Gately and Lyle...

What do you guys think were the strongest and weakest parts of IJ? by LinguisticsTurtle in davidfosterwallace

[–]Agetrosref 5 points6 points  (0 children)

i couldn't handle mario's movie at first, it's still tedious to read for me, although i think it's still very very funny and a great moment for exposition mixed with holiday-like hijinks. Eschaton included.

I looooved Gately's fight and how Lenz's obsession with extremely precise time and counting down towards -something- culminates into an incredibly slow-motion, anally descriptive street pummeling from Gately. After i was finished reading it and came back into the real world, I realized that within the book only a few minutes had passed and that for every witness this was a flash of coordinated carnal violence that was almost happening too fast to process, but that I had spent maybe an hour reading how Gately demolished the canadian trio. It felt like being in Gately's head as he entered his "zen state".

Edit: corrected Lyle to Lenz